72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Z365" or "Festival all year round" is the new strategic point of the Festival in which converge investigation, accompaniment and development of new talents (Ikusmira Berriak, Nest); training and cinematic knowledge transfer (Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, Zinemaldia + Plus, Filmmakers' dialogue); and investigation, disclosure and cinematic thought (Z70 project, Thought and Discussion and Research and publications).
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VII International Film School Meeting
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Mikaël Buch
France-Germany
9 min.
Short film
Jeanne and Jérôme are two musicians in a great orchestra. She plays the cello and him the violin. They are both very shy and unconfident. As the conductor ask them to play a sonate together, they are first unwilling to play together. After a few notes, the two musicians are in perfect harmony, and this duo turns into a magical moment... magical indeed...
Not in competition
Leigh Richards
Australia
13 min.
Short film
Finn works as standover man for a shady property developer, but harbours secret dreams of a bosing career. When his latest victim, Sonny, proves more thatn a match for him, Finn has to come to terms with his own violent nature and makes a stand for what he believes in.
Not in competition
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico
27 min.
Short film
A youngster shut in his department. The indifference and loneliness of the world around him.
Guest Film
Not in competition
Dustin Loose
Germany-France
9 min.
Short film
Two siblings hide in a basement. War and death are waiting for them outside. Their only connection to the exterior world is a careful look through the small window, which allows them to see not more that the boots of the soldiers. Dido is pregnant. thomas knows his sister's pregnancy is a threat to them: As soon as the baby will see the light of day, it is going to scream and they will be discovered.
Not in competition
Sven Fox
Germany-France
9 min.
Short film
Six late 19th century orphan girls prepare a meal in the convent kitchen, when they discover the pregnancy of te 'mute one'. Barely taking their bewildered eyes off her, they try to continue working, until a sunray illuminates the quasihaloed pregnant girl plucking a chicken. has a miracle appened in their midst? Between the faithful and the sceptics a controversy breaks out which threatens to chance the hierarchical group balance.
Not in competition
Claudia Calderón
Cuba
10 min.
Short film
it's the Year of the Pig and Chang Rodríguez expects a change in his life. He will eventfully change the lives of his neighbours in Havana's China Town.
José Miguel Alonso
Spain
14 min.
Short film
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda are twi adolescent Victorian girls in search of true love. Their extreme and frivolous innocence involves them in a mind-bloggling series of amorous and sexual mix-ups, where everything is confused and misunderstood.
Cyprien Vial
France - Germany
9 min.
Short film
Bathalie has everything for being happy. Still, it seems she lacks the essential. Some days in the life of Nathalie and the desire that consumes her.
Not in competition
Alejandro Ramírez Corona
Mexico
23 min.
Short film
Faced with no future in the big city, a couple of close friends decide to rob a supermarket, unaware of the price they'll have to pay for their actions.
Not in competition
Guest Film
Romain Carcanade
France
23 min.
Short film
March 1909. Two men are transporting a machine in order to build a train station and open a transpyrinean railway line. Climbing up is not that simple with all the difficulties due to the mountain environment. anyway the ascent begins. But the expedition is soon taking an unexpected turn. And one of the men is facing a new kind of problem.
Elad Keidan
Israel
36 min.
Short film
Jerusalem. just before the commencement of the Sabbath, Amnon goes out to buy some milk at the Katamonin neighborhood's grocery store. apparently, the milk he bought is sour and, until sundown, amnon finds himself wandering between encounters with different characters from the neighbourhood.
Norah McGettigan
Poland
30 min.
Short film
Monika, since her accident some three years preciously, has been confined to a wheelchair. Her daugther Julia makes a film about her mother as part of a school project. Monika thought her biggest fear was seeing herself on screen as a woman in a wheelchair, but finds it a greater challenge to accept that her daugther is now a woman, who must soon go her own way. a mixture of pain and humour, and dignity and weakness, this is a simple story of love between a mother and daughter.
David Casademunt
Spain
15 min.
Short film
It was all much better before. Alex, 14, refuses to accept his new family situation. That's why, when Christmas comes round, he throws himself into a lasy effort to make things the way they used to be for his mother.
Azzam El Mehdi
Morocco
13 min.
Short film
Between a father who continues to plant in the dry land and the city lights, a boy sways between moral duty and the dream considered as betrayal which nevertheless gives his life some kind of sense.
Michaela Kezele
Germany
22 min.
Short film
Yugoslavia during the 1999 NATO air-raids. The little boy Milan arranges to meet his older brother later on, to play "hide and seek" in the forest, but surprisingly he finds somebody else... A realistic protrait of the effects of war on innocent civilians.
Not in competition
Fernando Eimbcke
Mexico
12 min.
Short film
Which beauty is more important, inside or out?
Guest Film
Not in competition
Gabriel Enrique Vargas
Colombia
15 min.
Short film
Damp images flitting between trees to the sound of bees humming. Ingenuity floats in milk and imagination emerges from the fantasy of bubbles, wainting for the untimely awakening of an awareness already sensed by the silence and the skin.
Ian Clark
United Kingdom
25 min.
Short film
A girl in love, a pop star in peril and a gang on the run... Somebody's going to get burned.
Susana Rodríguez Barriga
Cuba
13 min.
Short film
Yubisnel, 22, is repairing the road leading into a mountain region in Cuba. Although he wishes to, he cannot take the very road he is working on to escape. To avoid the emptiness he fears, he takes off on an inner journey.
Juan Manuel Betancourt
Colombia
13 min.
Short film
Federico Guillermo is playing on the living room rug with his toys and his cat. When Lía, his sister, sees him, she runs to tell her mother who, antry, tells him off and obliges him to put his orthopaedic shoes. He tries to stop her, without success. He decides to run away from home. He kisses his beloved cat and hands it to Lía, who warns him: "Tie your shoe-laces or you'll fall". Federico runs along the street when suddenly, 'pum', he falls. He has tripped over a hole in which we can see that the pavement is a piece of fabric.
David Cobo Días, Francisco Rodriguez Sousa
Spain
9 min.
Short film
The disheartening race of an old man in a wheelchair to furnish the loneliness of the dilapidated, filthy home in which he lives, rigging photographs to invent a happy past for himself.
Pierre Saint-Martin Castellanos
Mexico
3 min.
Short film
A bridge tells the story of a young couple as their love falls apart.
Not in competition
Guest Film
Deniz Buga
USA
10 min.
Short film
On Wednesdays the soldier leaves the barracks and visits the apartment of the Buddhist man in the cuty. Unity of the two is temporary, the love they need is eternal.
Norie Taniguchy
USA
26 min.
Short film
Ruminations about the role of women in the life of Japanese author Tanizaki Junichiro.
Yasmine Novak
Israel
31 min.
Short film
Zohar is a talented young athlete, obligated to help her single parent mother debbie in her beauty salon. As her first suitor arrives at the house, tomboy Zohar nust deal with first signs of womanhood. afraid to follow her mother's easy-going footsteps, Zohar is slowly pushed to the edge.
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